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Tor is free and much easier than a VPN.

Tor Browser bundle on Win/Mac/Linux: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Orweb on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianp...

OnionBrowser on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448?mt...

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Tor is so slow as to be unusable for everyday browsing.

Tor Browser is perfectly suitable for everyday browsing. When's the last time you used it for any significant period of time? It's plenty speedy and very stable.

Please, instead of bemoaning your complete lack of privacy online, do something about it for a change. Download Tor Browser right now.

Tor Browser bundle on Win/Mac/Linux: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Orweb on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianp....

OnionBrowser on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448?mt....

What kind of a weasel word is "everyday" browsing?

Tor has way more latency. It's been a while since I measured bandwidth, but relatively high bandwidth transfers like videos are everyday browsing nowadays. I, for one, frequently use Youtube playlists as ad-hoc background music, for example.

I don't find Tor that slow. Unless you're talking watching videos or something.

That "unless" is a big (if not major) part of everyday Internet usage of a casual user, so your argument only supports parent post.

Hasn't been my recent experience. It's got rather a lot of relay capacity, actually, and has scaled better than I expected.

I2P is also a lot faster than when I last looked, even though i2pd isn't done.

Isn't non-HTTPS traffic susceptible to snooping in Tor?

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